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Palmer Woods Music in Homes 2017

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Fri. June 16, 8pm: James Carter Quartet

Virtuosic saxophone sensation James Carter joins composer/guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, who describes Carter as “the John Coltrane of our era.” Marion Hayden on bass and Djallo Keita on drums. Concert held in a tent on the garden of a stately historic home; you may tour a portion of the home prior to the concert. Includes a buffet with dinner, beverages and desserts.

$60.00

$4.29

Sat. June 17, 8pm: Miche Braden Quintet

Miche Braden is an extraordinary Diva who’s well known for her portrayals of musical giants Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey, Valaida Snow and Bessie Smith. The New York Times describes Miche as "A big voice full of blues, bawdy and unapologetic… she knows when to let it soar and when to keep it at an insinuatingly low simmer.” Braden returns home for this grand finale concert to share her bold and brilliant talents with guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, pianist Buddy Budson, bassist Marion Hayden and drummer Djallo Djakate Keita.

$60.00

$4.29

VIP: Sat. June 17, 8pm: Miche Braden Quintet

Reserved seating in the first few rows with additional leg room and early admission to the Miche Braden Quintet concert.

Add your name to the waitlist (add for each ticket you want). An evening of rich jazz history comes alive when pianist/vocalist Alvin Waddles plays the music of stride and ragtime legends Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, and other greats. Bassist Marion Hayden, saxophonist Gene Parker and percussionist Djallo Djakate Keita round out this superb quartet. Includes a delicious creole-style meal. Mardi Gras attire encouraged!

Celebrate Black History month with a tribute to giants of Jazz with the powerful Dave McMurray on sax, Ibrahim Jones on bass, Jeffrey Canady on drums, plus A. Spencer Barefield on guitar. The musicians will perform innovative and legendary works of jazz, widely considered to be America’s true Classical Music. A delicious buffet of food, sweets and beverages is included.

WAITLIST: Add you name MULTIPLE times for each ticket you want. Jazz master saxophonist/clarinetist Wendell Harrison World Music Quintet featuring Senegalese bassist/vocalist Pathe Jasse and pianist Pamela Wise. A delicious buffet of African-inspired meal is included.

Brazilian-born Brazilian-born piano virtuoso Maria Meirelles joins the multi-talented New York violinist Jannina Barefield Norpoth.
Meirelles is widely known for her mastery of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas, which she performed from memory in a marathon of seven concerts at Carnegie Hall and has recorded at Detroit's Orchestra Hall. Norpoth, who grew up in Palmer Woods, made her debut as a soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at age 14. She now performs with the innovative New York-based PUBLIQuartet (PQ), who are the 2017 Quartet-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The repertoire for this special classical evening will include Sonata(s) by Prokofiev, Beethoven, and more. A surprise guest will perform with Jannina in a tribute to Duke Ellington’s 118th birthday. A delicious buffet of food, sweets and beverages included.

Add your name to the waiting list for each ticket you want. Founded by Puerto ­Rican-born congero “Ozzie” Rivera and led by award-winning music director/pianist Bill Meyer, Orquesta continues the tradition of explosive Afro-Cuban rhythms and tones. Meyer leads this ­irresistible Latin ensemble of horns, percussionists and vocalists. A delicious buffet of Mexican food, sweets and beverages is included. Concert is held in a tent adjacent in the gardens of a Palmer Woods home, which you may tour prior to the concert.

Please join us at future concerts. Visit Palmerwoods.org for more information.
Call Barbara at 313-891-2514 or 313-574-6847, (cell) with any questions or concerns, or email concertseries@palmerwoods.org

Enjoy delicious food and beverages; meet the musicians during intermission

Ticket holders will receive the address and directions to the concert via email about a week prior to the concert. You will also receive an electronic tickets when you purchase online (no need to print them). Your name will be on our guest list at the door of the concert, similar to a "will-call." If you have not received directions by Tuesday of the concert, CHECK YOUR SPAM folder!

If you have any questions, email concertseries@palmerwoods.orgor call Barbara, 313-891-2514 or 313-574-6847

GROUP DISCOUNT: If you are ordering 10 or more tickets to a single concert, click on the phrase 'Enter promotional code' (directly above the button that says 'Order Now' near the bottom of the ticket order section). Enter the word Group to receive $5 off each ticket. VIP tickets: $10 more per concert provides reserved seating in the front several rows, early admission to concert, front of the reception line for food, and extra leg room.

To purchase tickets via the mail, send a self-addressed stamped envelope with a check made out to Palmer Woods Association and a note with your name, address, phone number, email, and how many tickets you are ordering and for which concert. Mail to Palmer Woods Association, 19550 Argyle Crescent, Detroit, MI 48203

GRAND FINALE WEEKEND

Friday, June 16, 8 pm

JAMES CARTER Quartet

Garden Concert (tour home prior to concert)

International saxophone sensation James Carter fills enormous festivals and concert halls around the world, so it is a rare treat to hear him in a more intimate setting. Extraordinarily virtuosic, Carter soloed with the

Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Neeme Järvi in 2002 and 2003, performing a saxophone concerto written for him and commissioned by the DSO, which he since has performed with major orchestras worldwide. Joining him is composer/guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, who describes Carter as “the John Coltrane of our era.” Carter, Hayden, and Barefield can be heard on the Blue Note Records release “Detroit Jazz City” with other legendary Detroit artists. In the 1980s-’90s, Barefield and Carter toured the world with jazz great Lester Bowie and others. Bassist Marion Hayden and drummer Djallo Djakate Keita will keep the sound solid and swinging. Tickets: $60; VIP seating in front rows with additional leg room: $70.

Saturday, June 17, 8 pm

MICHE BRADEN Quintet

Garden Concert (tour home prior to concert)

David Alan Grier, who was scheduled to perform on June 17, will be filming a new TV show and will not be able to join us in Detroit. We are thrilled to announce that Miche Braden will replace Grier.

An extraordinary Diva who’s well known for her portrayals of Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey, Valaida Snow and other legends, Miche Braden is famous for her role as blues giant Bessie Smith in the award-winning sensation “The Devil’s Music, The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith.” The musical, which premiered off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre in 2011, has won high praises from the New York Post to The New York Times for Braden's portrayal of the "Empress of the Blues."

The musical continues to thrill audiences across the country. In a recent performance, The LA Times raves, "Bessie Smith's outsized talents — and personality — are vividly channeled through a powerhouse performance by Miche Braden."

The New York Times describes Miche as "A big voice full of blues, bawdy and unapologetic… she knows when to let it soar and when to keep it at an insinuatingly low simmer.” Detroit-raised Braden returns home for the Palmer Woods Music in Homes grand finale concert to share her bold and brilliant talents, from devilish to angelic.

A versatile artist, actress, singer, poet and songwriter, Braden was mentored by Motown’s Thomas “Beans” Bowles, Funk Brother Earl Van Dyke and T. Harold Bowles, in addition to Jazz Master Harold McKinney. She has sung with Milt Hinton, Lionel Hampton, Regina Carter, and James Carter. She is featured on the James Carter release "Gardenia’s for Lady Day" (Sony/Columbia), and appeared with him at Carnegie Hall. Braden is featured on CDs to be released this year by Regina Carter and Gayelynn McKinney, with whom she shared the stage in the ensemble Straight Ahead.

This will be an exciting night of music from the great divas of jazz and blues, not to mention Braden’s own fabulous compositions. Braden’s Detroit band includes virtuoso musicians: guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, pianist Buddy Budson, bassist Marion Hayden and drummer Djallo Djakate Keita. Tickets: $60; VIP seating in front rows with additional leg room: $70.

*May and June concerts are held in a spacious tent set up in the gardens of a home; you may tour a portion of the home prior to concert. In the case of severe weather, Palmer Woods Music in Homes (MIH) will move the concert to the beautiful art deco Detroit Unity Temple or other appropriate nearby venue. MIH reserves the right to make program changes if necessary. Tickets are not refundable.

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PAST CONCERTS

Friday, December 30, 8 pm

New Year's Eve an Eve Early Party!

CARLA COOK

A. Spencer Barefield, guitar Dave Young, bass • Sean Dobbins, drums

Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Carla Cook is a “straight ahead jazz diva with a gospel soul, big band heart, classical cool and improvisational hot. And what a beautiful voice,” raves JazzTimes. Internationally acclaimed, Cook is a native Detroiter and Cass Tech grad based in New York with her longtime collaborators, famed violinist Regina Carter and pianist Cyrus Chestnut.

This tribute to jazz giants features the thundering Dave McMurray on sax, Ibrahim Jones on bass, Jeffrey Canady on drums, plus A. Spencer Barefield on guitar. The musicians will perform innovative and legendary works of jazz, widely considered to be America’s true Classical Music genre.

Music Director and featured soloist with Motown artist KEM, McMurray also has toured with Bob James, pianist Geri Allen, composer Mark Isham, Algerian Räi artist Cheb Khalid, and most recently with French pop star Johnny Hallyday. He performed and recorded with the eclectic funk band Was (Not Was) and with Kid Rock; he’s recorded with the Rolling Stones, B 52’s, Herbie Hancock, BB King, Bonnie Raitt, Temptations, Patti Smith, Bootsy Collins, and many others. Tickets: $45; VIP seating in front rows with additional leg room: $55.

Saturday, March 25, 8 pm

WENDELL HARRISON

World Music Quintet featuring

PATHE JASSI

Jazz master saxophonist/clarinetist Wendell Harrison, African bassist/vocalist Pathe Jassi, pianist/2016 Kresge Arts Fellow Pamela Wise, guitarist Jacob Schwandt and drummer Louis Jones III will explore jazz and its African rhythms, as they perform original compositions, as well as music from Senegal, the Caribbean, and New Orleans. The concert will contrast the different approaches to expression of Black life, and also define and illuminate rhythms from the three music idioms—Blues, Reggae, and Samba—which tell stories of African linkage and various cultures of the African diaspora. Tickets: $45; VIP seating in front rows with additional leg room: $55.

Praised for her eloquent musical style, beautiful tone and brilliant technique, Meirelles has performed under the baton of many notable maestri, including Arthur Fiedler, Sixten Ehrling and Gyora ­Bernstein, and has received acclaim throughout the U.S. and Latin America, where she often performs. Meirelles is widely known for her mastery of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas, which she performed from memory in a marathon of seven concerts at Carnegie Hall and has recorded at Detroit's Orchestra Hall.

Norpoth, who grew up in Palmer Woods, now performs with the innovative New York-based PUBLIQuartet (PQ), who debuted at Carnegie Hall and are the 2016-17 Quartet-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Jannina has performed in the Detroit area with PQ at the Detroit Jazz Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The repertoire for this special classical evening will include Sonatas by Prokofiev and Beethoven, a contemporary composition by Nico Muhly (a composer whose work has included collaborations with Björk and the choreographer Benjamin Millepied; his opera “Two Boys” was produced in 2013 by the Metropolitan Opera, and he has been featured on the tv show "Mozart in the Jungle"), and other to-be-determined works. Expect a surprise jazz artist to perform with Jannina in a tribute to Duke Ellington's 118th birthday.Tickets: $45; VIP seating in front rows with additional leg room: $55.

Saturday, May 20, 8 pm

Orquesta La Inspiracion

Garden Concert (tour a portion of the home prior to concert)

Our annual Latin Jazz World Music concert is always a favorite. Orquesta La Inspiracion, founded by Puerto Rican congera Ozzie Rivera and under the musical direction of pianist Bill Meyer, is a large ensemble of some of the Detroit area’s most talented and knowledgeable Latin musicians. La Inspiracion features a hot horn section led by saxophonist Chris Kaercher, explosive percussions driven by top Latin musicians including Ozzie, rhythmic bassist Eddie Caraballo, and soulful vocals with the dynamic Dulce Checkler and Audrey Northington. The beats of salsa, merengue, cumbia and Afro-Caribbean jazz may entice you to dance and sway on a grassy dance floor beneath a star-studded sky. Festivities are held in a spacious tent in a Palmer Woods ­garden, with a tasty Latin-style meal served during intermission. Tickets: $50; VIP seating in front rows with additional leg room: $60.

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The Palmer Woods Association (PWA) is the neighborhood association for the Palmer Woods historic neighborhood in Detroit. Creative Arts Collective (CAC) is an arts organization founded by jazz legend Roscoe Mitchell, A. Spencer Barefield and other musicians in the mid-1970s. In 2007, CAC's Executive/Artistic Director A. Spencer Barefield and his wife artist/photographer Barbara Barefield (both longtime Palmer Woods residents) conceived the Music in Homes concert series and forged a partnership between CAC and PWA to present Palmer Woods Music in Homes concerts, as well as a free concert series for children. PWA has been presenting historic holiday home tours in Palmer Woods since 1990, started a Summer Garden Tour in 2014 and is a 501 (C)(4) nonprofit organization. Funds raised from these events help to improve, beautify, and strengthen the neighborhood. A portion of the proceeds is donated to Detroit-area charities that provide important services to improve the quality of life in Detroit and help the lives of those in need. Creative Arts Collective (CAC) has been presenting jazz and creative music in Detroit and throughout the world since 1978. It is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the presentation, preservation and creation of jazz, creative music and artistic expression.